You CAN'T prepay property tax in Washington state. King County: Don’t prepay your property taxes now to avoid tax hit next year But Washington state bars counties from collecting tax payments until the full tax roll is certified, which isn’t expected to happen until January. Link in the quote is to ...

Seems like everyone is doing everything they can to slow down the $$ inflows into Vanguard. Less active investing threatens Bloomberg's terminal business which is 80 to 85% of their income. All Bloomberg Terminals are leased in two-year cycles (in the late 1990s and early 2000s, three-year contract...

I am not sure if new Iphones support new T-Mobile 600 MHz frequency. T-Mobile users may need to wait for another phone. No it won't. I thought so too. Thanks for confirming that. For that, I wouldn't think of any reason to buy this phone if I was a T-Mobile user. I have no idea if it is just a bios...

I am not sure if new Iphones support new T-Mobile 600 MHz frequency. T-Mobile users may need to wait for another phone. No it won't. I thought so too. Thanks for confirming that. For that, I wouldn't think of any reason to buy this phone if I was a T-Mobile user. I have no idea if it is just a bios...

I am not sure if new Iphones support new T-Mobile 600 MHz frequency. T-Mobile users may need to wait for another phone. No it won't. Also of note is that the iPhone X will support LTE band 66 but not LTE band 71, the latter of which is T-Mobile’s new 600MHz spectrum . Here’s the full list of the iP...

And I thought triple was risky enough U.S. SEC approves request to list quadruple-leveraged ETFs The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday approved a request to trade quadruple-leveraged exchange-traded funds, marking a first for the growing market for such products in the United States. ......

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks. The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, includ...

http://www.dol.wa.gov/driverslicense/gettingalicense.html?hcwp Go to the link above and follow the top two links: Getting a license Steps to getting your first license Find out how to get your first Washington State driver license. Driver training and testing Find out where training and testing are ...

The 4000+% annual turnover on SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) says there is a lot of price discovery going on. Paul Edit: replaced 5800% because I overstated it since the share price has gone up over the last year. I was using (daily share turnover ) x (share price) x (250 days) / (total SPY assets). Better ...

Burton Malkiel has been an emerging markets fan. For example, in the 2013 update of The Elements of Investing , which is supposed to be aimed at novices, Malkiel and Ellis withdrew their recommendation for Total Bond and suggested a "surrogate bond portfolio" for the "age of financial repression" c...

2015 Samsung 4k TV as a Monitor Set Up Guide Assumptions/Disclaimers: -This guide was written based on my JS9000 model. All of these models (JU6500, JU6700, JU7100, JU7500, JS7000 JS8500, JS9000) are very similar, but there are slight differences. This guide should still be mostly applicable for al...

Hi All, I am planning to move from Denver to Austin, TX within 2 months. My office address will be near the Austin Airport. I would like to see if it is possible for me to buy a house in Austin with the following criteria. 1. Single family house around 2000 Sq.ft 2. Around $350 K max 3. Good Middle...

Also as per Grabiner's post, because most preference shares don't have a redemption date (but some can be called by the issuer, a nasty feature for the investor) they are very "long duration" ie maximally sensitive to interest rate changes (up or down). The same would be true of a bond with an infi...

Warning, construction on I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass. http://www.wsdot.com/traffic/passes/snoqualmie/default.aspx This has been going for at least a year or two. I got caught in the night time blasting where they close the pass at 7.30 pm and don't reopen it until 8.45 or so. I don't think there is an...

Just so the OP understands... The weather East of the Cascades on July 9 is very likely to be hotter than Seattle. Quite likely 95+ degrees. Maybe 100+. Not quite Arizona hot, buts still desert. Hiking around the Potholes will be hot because of all the dark basalt. Take plenty of water, sun screen e...

Hmmm. I just did the Spokane-to-Portland drive yesterday (after driving to Spokane last Sunday). I was in Eastern Washington on a 4-day bus tour to learn about the geology of the Ice Age Floods. Fascinating stuff. I-90 will take you through Moses Lake. Just south of there is the Potholes Reservoir ...

The more I read, the more I don't like the UIT's that she has in her portfolio. Unfortunately, they are a significant percentage of her portfolio (27%). As far as I can tell, the expired ones have all the fees paid already, so that is sunk cost. There is one that is not expired yet, but expires thi...

I am thinking leave Seattle Sunday a.m.and get to Spokane in the evening,go to Coeur on Monday for the day and look around Spokane most of the day Tuesday before our flight back early evening.Maybe better to go on 90 if there are nice small towns to see. I grew up in Eastern Washington. Allow all d...

That .218% is probably a small part of the fees. Here's some good information on UITs. http://www.responsible-investing.net/news_sep07_uit.html Advisors pull their fees from your assets, but they never show them. If they did, a lot of investors would see the light and dump them. Interesting. I've s...

I've had my house for 5.5 years and never have seen holes dug up from animals. The hole is about 3-4in diameter and 5-6 inch deep (in one day/night they did this). Both are just a few inches from the house. This is the second time it has happened in the span of maybe 4 days. We don't have pets. I k...

JW-Retired wrote:Raccoons are less dainty and are apt to roll up whole areas of the sod.

Raccoons are for dealing with paper wasp nests. I had one the size of a volley ball a few feet off the ground. I wasn't about to go near it, but the raccoons chowed down on it one night. No more wasps.

Have a book burning in the backyard, invite the neighbors over! I have unpleasant memories of a high school job tending a fire used to dispose of old paper records. Burning books completely is a lot harder than most people think. Either you use a lot of extra fuel or you rip out and crumple each pa...

I am thinking about biking from Bellingham, WA to Missoula, MT in August (see this thread for related details). The route I am considering runs from Bellingham, WA up into Canada and then along the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) from Hope through Manning Park and then on to Osoyoos, before crossing ...

He's retired, his last on air broadcast was in 2010. he was back doing podcasts in 2012 and that gig lasted a year. i loved listening to bruce back in the day, and i listened to the podcasts while they were on but it wasn't the same. other than jersey boy pork roll he couldn't get any advertisers s...

One thing I forgot to mention, is that I did elect to invest "aggressive for my age" when I originally signed up with FE. The expected return of stocks is more than bonds over a long period of time. The best predictor of bond returns is their current yield which is really low right now. If FE has a...

itstoomuch wrote:No, we bought with inheritance, Seattle, 2015. Owner had the condo 2/2, unit for sale for 3 months, and had dropped the price twice. We were only bidders, a week after the 2nd price reduction.

Considering the market had 1 to 1.5 months inventory last year that owner was way over priced.

Change passwords. Consider uninstalling it if you're not using it. One of my friends has it set to not autostart when their Mac is turned on. TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how Service blames password reuse for attacks used to drain financial accounts. ... In the ...

I read it at the library too! In the June "Morningstar Dividend Investor" newsletter (I have free access from my public library), the author states that the golden age of dividend growth is over. Also states that the first quarter of 2016, S&P 500 dividends per share rose only 4.6%, the weakest adva...

Walking can be the way to go! The OP is asking about weight training and staving off additional sarcopenia. Walking will do nothing to get him/her stronger or increase muscle mass. Totally agree. I walked a lot and was sedentary and it didn't help with muscle strength. I needed exercise and stretch...